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FRIDAY August 31, 2007 Vol. 115, No. 12 | Athens, Georgia Scattered T-Storms. VWT High 85 | Low 67 ONLINE wwwjedandblack.com Univ. reputation improves By KRISTEN COULTER The Red & Black As Michael Adams approached his 10th anniversa ry as president, he said aca demic rigor has increased in the last decade at the University. “What I am most pleased about is the academic prog ress,” Adams said in a tele phone interview Tuesday. “Students today are more seri ous than they were 10 years ago.” According to the University’s “Fact Book 2006,” the number of freshmen accepted by under graduate admissions has decr eased while the number of app lications has increased. GOOD EVENING CALLER, YOU'RE ON THE AIR M, **ss/’ . 1 . ‘‘ " ’ , -CICjON; ' 7 ,V ■ ; in I 1 — HRM - - BRHH ■ .| ■■... WUGA-FM hits 20-year mark By TAMARA BEST The Red & Black A happy birthday song has been sung and the candles blown out. WUGA-FM celebrated 20 years of continuous broadcast ing in the Athens and north east Georgia community Tuesday. The station, with channels 97.1 FM and 97.9 FM, reaches more than 20,000 listeners and has earned more than 130 state and national awards for its pro gramming and news, according to the WUGA Web site. “It takes real passion and pride to present the diverse voices from the community,” said news director Mary Kay Mitchell. “Maintaining a level of high quality specific to the com munity is a recipe for success.” Staffers who have been with the station since its inception said they remember its humble beginnings and reflect on the success it has attained thus far. “We started very small in comparison to other stations,” Student starts non-profit to aid African talent By COLTER MCWHORTER The Red & Black The West African country of Namibia has artists without interna tional markets. Benjamin Cobb, a senior from Huntsville, Ala., and founder of Promote Africa, said he wants to bring it to them. Cobb said he doesn’t dabble in aid-based, cookie-cutter solutions. “Their needs need to be assessed from the bottom-up,” Cobb said. “Whatever your avenue for develop ment is, if you have no comprehen sive field feedback in place, you’re never going to know how you’re suc cessful. Certainly, health indicators Reaching the Newsroom News (706) 433-3037 Variety (706) 433-3041 Sports (706) 433-3040 Opinions (706) 433-3043 Photo (706) 433-3046 The RetJxßlack An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community ESTABLISHED 1893, INDEPENDENT 19 8.0 Adams’ 10 th Anniversary The percentage of students accepted dropped from 73 per cent in 1997 to 58 percent in 2006, and 4,411 more stu dents applied in 2006 than applied in 1997. Freshman Nora Ignatius, a linguistics major from Duluth, said she chose to attend the University because it offers her major and is close to her home. She said the increasingly dif ficult admissions stan dards have changed many of her friends’ opinions of the University. “A few years ago it wasn’t a big deal to get into UGA, but now everyone’s really impressed.” Adams said he thinks there PHOTOS BY LINDY DUGGER | The Red Black A Mary Kay Mitchell, news director for WUGA radio in Athens, talks with a panel guest before her weekly show “Athens News Matters." said Robb Holmes, program manager for WUGA. “It is good to know that it is possible to receive recognition without being a large operation.” Earlier this month, the sta have improved, but at the same time the quality of life has not gone up that much.” Cobb constructed his non-profit as a supplement to the international market connections of Namibia and Africa. His field work that provided him with vocational training, surveying and support drove its creation. “Last year, I had an internship through an NGO called WorldTteach, living in Namibia and working with the Ministry of Education,” Cobb said. From there, he said he roped his roommates in to talk with local poli ticians about the potential. “This year, we were here to set up international exports with local art On the Web redandblack.com If spreadsheets, court documents and legal mumbo jumbo get your goat, hop online because we’ve got aii that and more from the court case concerning former Univ. professor Flynn Warren Jr. are multiple reasons explaining why students attend the University He cited research opportunities, the HOPE scholarship and the University’s reputa tion as factors in appli cants’ decision-making. He also said students have a positive experi ence and share their pleasure with friends, who in turn decide to attend the University. “We’re the whole i ADAMS package,” he said. In the area of diversity, Adams said the University “has become a much more See ADAMS, Page 3A tion received several awards from various journalism organi zations. The Public Radio News • See WUGA, Page 5A ists,” said Cobb. “We have, basically, Promote Africa Foundation and COSDEF the Community Skills Development Foundation. We’re selling arts and crafts, music and literature,” Cobb said. “We have seven vendors in Namibia.” These artisans will be able to pitch their handwork later this year. African musicians will benefit from online tools such as Snocap, MySpace’s community music player. “We have 65-70 percent of each sale actually making it to the musi cian. We’re compiling a compendi um,” Cobb said. See AFRICA, Page 5A Laid-back fungus page 6A Athens-only specials, 40 beers on tap and statue decor make eating pizza quite the experience. Anybody hungry? Flip on over for a tasty treat. Conversations show students received help By BRIAN HUGHES The Red & Black Katie Barnett flew more than halfway across the country to attend a review class taught by Flynn Warren Jr., a University phar macy professor accused of giving out test questions to students, according to court documents. Now a pharmacist in Seattle, a graduate from the Wisconsin School of Pharmacy raved in an e-mail about the class she took from Warren in South Carolina and wrote that the pharmacy community would be enhanced with more teachers like him. As part of her gratitude, court documents show she then sup plied Warren with general topics from her North American Pharmacist Licensure Examination, a test used by each state’s boards of pharmacy, as well as exact questions to the test. “What does- p-value mean if p= 0.04 does that mean 4% due to chance? had this twice,” she writes. In the same document, Jeff Bruce, a pharmacy student from Creighton University, cites Warren’s guidance for his “inflat ed score.” He wrote that he scored a 130 out of 150 on the NAPLEX, which requires a score of 75 to pass. “About one-third of the ques tions were either word-for-word, or very similarly worded to those in the practice test you went over with us in Athens,” he wrote to the professor in the document. Warren retired from the Ticket Office: students confused about policy By LAWRENCE CONNEFF The Red & Black Much of the confusion sur rounding this season’s student football ticket distribution was a result of some students failing to carefully read all of the informa tion they were provided, Ticket Office staff said. Kelley Lawrence, assistant director of ticket operations, said the most common problem stu dents had this year was a failure to achieve full-time status before the Athletic Association’s 5 p.m. deadline on Aug. 17. Starting this season, students had to be registered for at least 12 credit hours to be eligible to receive tickets, according to the Athletic Association Web site. The new rule affected not only seniors who needed fewer than 12 hours to graduate, but also underclassmen who had not reg istered for their full class load by the deadline. gappy SiiL 4 SARA GUEVARA | The Red a Black ▲ Benjamin Cobb, founder of Promote Africa, poses for a portrait outside the Student Learning Center Tuesday. * M GAME TIME . UHt "111 • ' - jjjgf Under the lights and under pressure - will we beat OSU? FIRST & GOAL, PAGE IB University this July but still teaches elective classes at the College of Pharmacy. The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy has accused him of | 'm copyright , J % infringement, ■£ ' ~ alleging that he Wk' asked students to memorize test | questions and WARREN share what they could remember with him. And now students who have never met Warren are unable to take their licensure tests, at least for the foreseeable future. The NABP suspended admin istration of both the NAPLEX nationally and Georgia MPJE on Saturday. The organization has not revealed when students will be able to take the test again. The Red & Black scheduled a meeting for Thursday afternoon with Svein Oie, dean of the College of Pharmacy, but the See NABP, Page 3A MORE ONLINE >• View the NAPLEX pass rates for other pharmacy schools across the country. 'jp > Peruse court documents in the federal civil case ofThe Nation Association of Boards of Pharmacy v. The Board of jteg&'nts of the University of Georgia and Flynn Warren Jr. “The few things we’ve had were a few people who changed their schedules at the last minute during drop-add,”, he said. “And they’ve called and said, ‘Hey, I’m full-time,’ and we’ve worked with every single one and accommo dated them. There hasn’t been a single one who has contacted us that we haven’t accommodated with tickets.” If students were able to pres ent documentation proving they were taking 12 or more hours by the end of drop/add, Lawrence said, they were awarded a season ticket package based on the number of total credit hours earned at the University. Kristen Turner, a sophomore from Dalton, said she has had her share of problems with the distri bution system this year. Turner said she had 29 credit hours. Lawrence said all students with 27 or more hours earned at See FBALL, Page 6A Index UGA Today 2a Wire 2a Opinions 4A Variety 5A Crossword 3A Sports 6a Sudoku 5A